NEW COURT OFFICERS ARE OVERWHELMED; Civilians Struggle to Do Former Police Duty and Magistrates and Prisoners Suffer.

Every Magistrate sitting in Manhattan and the Bronx yesterday thanked the weather man for the downpour of Wednesday night. It brought about that comparatively few prisoners were awaiting arraignment. So the new court officials, who took yesterday the places of the policemen who, from time immemorial, have kept order and acted as masters of ceremonies in the police courts, were not overwhelmed absolutely by their new duties. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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